A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST When I studied abroad, I travelled to Galway, Ireland, for a couple days with two close friends, staying at a bed-and-breakfast run by an abrasive old Irish man who greeted us by calling us “Yanks.” At…
AN OBSERVANT SOCIALITE After a high-stakes game to secure a place in the regional championships, the Barons sportball team lost to the East-Western University Herons in their ninth game of the season. After a patriotic singing of the anthem, a…
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This summer, I pulled out all my old notebooks from my freshman through junior years at Franciscan in hopes of finding information useful for my thesis. I opened up notebook after notebook — written unabashedly in pencil — and I was disappointed. …
FR. JONATHAN ST. ANDRÉ, T.O.R. “When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it roams through arid regions searching for rest but, finding none, it says, ‘I shall return to my home from which I came.’ But upon returning, it finds it…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST “My forthcoming work in five volumes, ‘The Neglect of Cheese in European Literature,’ is a work of such unprecedented and laborious detail that it is doubtful whether I shall live to finish it.” Thus reads…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR When you talk about the best basketball players of all time, everyone essentially boils it down to just two guys: Lebron James and Michael Jordan. It’s hard to compare two guys who played in different eras…
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST At the moment, I am writing this article from a kitchen table in an Airbnb in Florence, Italy, where some friends and I are spending our 10-day break. The biggest tourist attraction here in Florence in…
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Apparently, defaulting to colonialism is the preferred method for evangelizing to the native peoples of South America. If the comments of certain leaders for the current Amazon Synod are any indication, that just might be…
SARAH KADERBEK CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Over a year ago, I got a text from my roommate which went something like, “So, would you watch a movie with me that has nothing trashy in it but is really scary?” I was skeptical.…
AN OBSERVANT SOCIALITE Televised all across Steubenville, Franciscan University of Steubenville’s first annual “Intenting Award Show” aired live last Saturday to countless cheers, tears and prayers. The “Intenting Award Show” — better known as “The Frannys” — features the most notable intent announcements of the…